diff -r 8d3b1ddf789c -r 8b50be3e2998 plover-gtk/packagestore.c
--- a/plover-gtk/packagestore.c	Sat Feb 20 12:11:02 2010 +0000
+++ b/plover-gtk/packagestore.c	Fri Apr 30 20:37:08 2010 +0100
@@ -137,11 +137,12 @@
 static void plover_package_store_get_value(GtkTreeModel *tree_model,
   GtkTreeIter *iter,gint column,GValue *value)
 {
+    char *s;
     PloverPackageStore *store=(PloverPackageStore *)tree_model;
     PloverPackage *package;
     g_return_if_fail(column>=0 && column<PLOVER_PACKAGE_STORE_NO_COLUMNS);
     g_return_if_fail(VALID_ITER(iter,store));
-    package=g_sequence_get(iter->user_data);
+    package=PLOVER_PACKAGE(g_sequence_get(iter->user_data));
     g_value_init(value,column_types[column]);
     switch((PloverPackageStoreColumn)column)
     {
@@ -160,7 +161,16 @@
 	    g_value_set_string(value,plover_package_get_version(package));
 	    break;
 	case PLOVER_PACKAGE_STORE_SUMMARY_COLUMN:
-	    g_value_set_string(value,plover_package_get_summary(package));
+	    s=plover_package_get_summary(package);
+	    if (*s)
+		g_value_set_string(value,s);
+	    else
+	    {
+		s=g_strconcat("The ",plover_package_get_name(package),
+		  " package",NULL);
+		g_value_set_string(value,s);
+		g_free(s);
+	    }
 	    break;
     }
 }